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I keep discovering that Melquiades possesses a lot of things that I have absolutely no explanations. It almost sounds like a Bermuda Triangle of audio amplification!

For instance today I discovered a totally strange thing: Melquiades does not care about speakers or care way less then I expected. I do not mean the impedance drops, the sensitivity deficiency or any other audio elementary things. I mean that Melquiades, for whatever reasons, maintains a certain default presentation and hold “own sound” regardless (or much less then I would expected) from what speakers are capable. Let me put it even more radical: - despite of what a bad speaker tries to do the Melquiades revises and makes them sound less faulty.

What I discovered (when I used speakers with way greater amount of problems that I would normally consider as “appropriate”) that Sound after Melquiades the sound of the speakers was way more acceptable. For instance the tonal (amplitude) deviation suddenly become way more annoying then they usually are.  Actually that was VERY strange: the Melquiades was able to musk out some absolutely ridiculous tonal distortions (in phase-coherent context).

I arrange my playback with some picks and drops of plus and minus 20dB, the amplitude that should convert any listening into a torture but being driven by Melquiades the listening awareness surprisingly fast tuned itself into the new tonal balance and after 3-5 minutes I did not experienced any major audio problems to listen music. I spent years with horns building; interpreting of the results of RTA and building the correlations between the measurable response and auditable experiences and I feel that I could perfectly predict what should be my perception of music when I have +20dB across 2 octaves. However, Melquiades somehow altered this pattern.

I even went for some even more radical experiments by turning off the drivers on my acoustic system. I was VERY surprised to realized that I had no hostility to Sound in my room when I played music via juts one midrange driver that coved from 1KHz to 12KHz. To my surprise the driver being driver by Melquiades after a few minutes of listening filled the room surprisingly self-contained Music. Then I just for fun flipped the driver to any other amps that I have in room the driver begun to sound more like a band-pass channel with not self-contained Musical value.

There is something VERY strange going on with this amp.

…to be continue…
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